My personal opinion is that their technology was too disruptive and would have ultimately undermined too much money making in the industry so it had to be stopped. The whole things smacks too much like a witch hunt. Including the fact that whenever I mention my opinion is gets down voted to oblivion.

I hear you, but it always seemed like snake oil to me considering that we're essentially dealing with physics here on a fundamental level and no amount of trickery using minimization will change any of that.